Twitter has announced that it's teamed up with The Weather Channel to live stream next week's total solar eclipse. The viewing, which is scheduled to kick off at 12 p.m. (EST) on Monday, August 21, will include footage from cities in Idaho, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Kentucky, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wyoming. To provide the best possible view of the eclipse, Twitter...
The folks over at 9to5Google spotted something rather interesting on Wednesday: Twitter is testing a new Night Mode feature for its web client. Night Mode, which debuted on the firm's Android application last year, introduces a number of subtle design changes intended to make using the platform in poorly lit environments a little easier on your eyes. In a statement issued to...
When I want to express an opinion that exceeds Twitter's famous 140-character word limit, I'm left with no choice but to divide it into multiple tweets, which can take quite a lot of time. That's why I've been actively searching for a tool that can do all the heavy lifting — and now I've found one. It's called Chirr (a bit of a strange moniker, I know) and it works by automatically...
Twitter has released a new filter that allows you to mute notifications for accounts that don't follow you, which should help curb the network's growing number of spam profiles. Recently, Twitter introduced a slew of other advanced filters, letting you snooze alerts for accounts that have a default profile picture and haven't confirmed their email address. Here's a list of all of the...
Less than a week after the much-requested feature arrived on its beta client, Twitter has started rolling out Automatic Night Mode for the stable build of its Android application. As its name suggests, Automatic Night Mode is an optional function that — automatically — switches between a white and black background at sunrise and sunset. But what's the point? Well, staring at a bright...
Twitter has announced a new update that will make its way to its Android application in the not-too-distant future. In addition to transporting a slew of bug fixes, the upgrade will introduce an optional Automatic Night Mode feature that switches between a white and black background at sunrise and sunset, respectively. At present, Twitter for Android users are required to manually...
Twitter has added the new emoji the Unicode Consortium showcased back in March as part of its Emoji 5.0 release, which includes everything from a brain to a zombie, available to its 328 million monthly active users. There's a caveat, though: You can't view the new emoji using the Twitter application for Android, iOS, Mac or Windows just yet, since Apple, Google and Microsoft are still...
Periscope for Android has received a much-requested update on the Play Store, bringing you the facility to broadcast live 360-degree video from your smartphone using the Insta360 Air camera. "As a broadcaster, 360 video allows you to spend less time and energy on framing your shot so you can focus on adding a new dimension to your viewers' experience," explains the firm. Live 360...
The NFL's one-year experiment with Twitter is over. The league started streaming Thursday Night Football games on the social network last year, but this year it's going to Amazon thanks to a $50 million deal it struck with the online giant. Originally, the NFL signed on with Twitter for a $10 million deal last year, but Amazon's $50 million deal was enough to secure the rights to live...
Twitter has teamed up with Google to launch a new version of its mobile website for users on a strict data cap. Redesigned from the ground up, mobile.twitter.com is now a Progressive Web App; it has the properties of a locally-saved application – like push notifications – while asking for significantly less space and bandwidth. Intended to save on data consumption, Twitter Lite is...